HP Contract Job Trends in London

HP
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring knowledge or experience of HP products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited HP over the 6 months leading up to 29 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Hewlett-Packard Company.

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 373 282 318
Rank change year-on-year -91 +36 +44
Contract jobs citing HP 43 60 78
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.23% 0.50% 0.45%
As % of the Vendors category 0.56% 1.09% 1.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 38 53
10th Percentile - £149 £138
25th Percentile £154 £213 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £525 £350
Median % change year-on-year -38.10% +50.00% -26.32%
75th Percentile £440 £620 £500
90th Percentile £605 £1,090 £594
England median daily rate £283 £450 £350
% change year-on-year -37.22% +28.57% -17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 4 6
10th Percentile £18.07 £20.09 -
25th Percentile £19.85 £23.03 £18.13
Median hourly rate £25.77 £24.66 £19.07
Median % change year-on-year +4.50% +29.35% -5.85%
75th Percentile - - £22.85
90th Percentile - - £23.80
England median hourly rate £20.09 £18.87 £20.00
% change year-on-year +6.47% -5.65% +5.65%

All Vendors
London

HP falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 7,686 5,517 7,167
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.79% 45.53% 41.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,069 3,586 4,928
10th Percentile £350 £330 £300
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £545 £538
Median % change year-on-year -3.67% +1.40% -4.87%
75th Percentile £638 £673 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
England median daily rate £505 £520 £515
% change year-on-year -2.88% +0.97% -3.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 107 99 129
10th Percentile £18.75 £15.84 £13.87
25th Percentile £25.46 £22.27 £17.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £28.50 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year +24.56% +21.28% -11.32%
75th Percentile £51.50 £42.75 £36.75
90th Percentile £79.75 £64.00 £65.00
England median hourly rate £32.50 £26.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year +22.64% +17.78% -41.56%

HP
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing HP relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

HP job vacancy trend in London

HP
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing HP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing HP

HP
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing HP in London over the 6 months to 29 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for HP in London

HP
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing HP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing HP

HP
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing HP within the London region over the 6 months to 29 May 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London -20 6 £338 -38.64% 4
West London -25 4 £145 - 2
HP
England

HP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (4.65%) Confluence
2 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.33%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (2.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (13.95%) BASE24
2 5 (11.63%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (2.33%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 10 (23.26%) Azure
2 5 (11.63%) AWS
2 5 (11.63%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (4.65%) GCP
4 1 (2.33%) Cloudflare
4 1 (2.33%) Entra ID
4 1 (2.33%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (2.33%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.98%) Firewall
2 2 (4.65%) DNS
2 2 (4.65%) VPN
2 2 (4.65%) Wireless
3 1 (2.33%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (2.33%) DHCP
3 1 (2.33%) IPsec
3 1 (2.33%) iSCSI
3 1 (2.33%) SMTP
3 1 (2.33%) SSL
3 1 (2.33%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (13.95%) NonStop SQL
2 4 (9.30%) OLTP
3 1 (2.33%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (2.33%) Apache Hive
3 1 (2.33%) Base SAS
3 1 (2.33%) Big Data
3 1 (2.33%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.33%) Hadoop
3 1 (2.33%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (2.33%) SAS Data Integration Studio
3 1 (2.33%) SAS Enterprise Guide
Development Applications
1 7 (16.28%) JIRA
2 5 (11.63%) Selenium
3 3 (6.98%) Zephyr
4 2 (4.65%) Cypress.io
4 2 (4.65%) TestRail
5 1 (2.33%) Appium
5 1 (2.33%) JMeter
5 1 (2.33%) LoadRunner
5 1 (2.33%) Postman
5 1 (2.33%) REST Assured
5 1 (2.33%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (2.33%) TestDirector
General
1 11 (25.58%) Banking
2 9 (20.93%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (18.60%) Finance
4 5 (11.63%) Social Skills
5 3 (6.98%) Public Sector
6 2 (4.65%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (2.33%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.33%) Legal
7 1 (2.33%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 8 (18.60%) Hardware Technician
2 7 (16.28%) Developer
3 6 (13.95%) Break Fix Engineer
3 6 (13.95%) Data Centre Engineer
3 6 (13.95%) Field Service Technician
3 6 (13.95%) Hardware Engineer
4 5 (11.63%) Support Engineer
5 4 (9.30%) Server Engineer
6 3 (6.98%) Analyst
6 3 (6.98%) Field Engineer
6 3 (6.98%) IT Engineer
6 3 (6.98%) Test Manager
7 2 (4.65%) Deskside Engineer
7 2 (4.65%) Deskside Support
7 2 (4.65%) Deskside Support Engineer
7 2 (4.65%) Desktop Support
7 2 (4.65%) Field Hardware Engineer
7 2 (4.65%) Server Support
7 2 (4.65%) Test Analyst
7 2 (4.65%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (9.30%) REST
2 2 (4.65%) Middleware
3 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (2.33%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 9 (20.93%) Data Centre
2 6 (13.95%) Tandem
3 5 (11.63%) EMV
4 4 (9.30%) Management Information System
5 3 (6.98%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (4.65%) iPhone
6 2 (4.65%) Product Ownership
7 1 (2.33%) APACS
7 1 (2.33%) Celerra
7 1 (2.33%) Cloud Native
7 1 (2.33%) Clustering
7 1 (2.33%) Driving Licence
7 1 (2.33%) EMC Centera
7 1 (2.33%) EMC VMAX
7 1 (2.33%) EMC VNX
7 1 (2.33%) IBM XIV
7 1 (2.33%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (2.33%) PKI
7 1 (2.33%) Symmetrix
7 1 (2.33%) Symmetrix DMX
Operating Systems
1 6 (13.95%) Windows
2 2 (4.65%) Mac OS
3 1 (2.33%) Android
3 1 (2.33%) Linux
3 1 (2.33%) Windows 10
3 1 (2.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (37.21%) Customer Service
2 9 (20.93%) Break/Fix
2 9 (20.93%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (18.60%) Test Automation
4 7 (16.28%) End-to-End Testing
5 6 (13.95%) DevOps
5 6 (13.95%) Test Management
5 6 (13.95%) User Acceptance Testing
6 5 (11.63%) Agile
6 5 (11.63%) High Availability
6 5 (11.63%) Migration
6 5 (11.63%) Performance Tuning
6 5 (11.63%) Regression Testing
6 5 (11.63%) Software Testing
6 5 (11.63%) Test Strategy
7 4 (9.30%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (9.30%) Defect Management
7 4 (9.30%) Scenario Testing
7 4 (9.30%) Test Planning
7 4 (9.30%) Traceability Matrix
Programming Languages
1 8 (18.60%) SQL
2 6 (13.95%) C
3 5 (11.63%) COBOL
4 2 (4.65%) JavaScript
4 2 (4.65%) PowerShell
5 1 (2.33%) C++
5 1 (2.33%) Java
5 1 (2.33%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 7 (16.28%) Degree
2 5 (11.63%) Security Cleared
3 3 (6.98%) ISTQB
4 2 (4.65%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (4.65%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (4.65%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.33%) CCNP
5 1 (2.33%) CCSE
5 1 (2.33%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (20.93%) SLA
2 6 (13.95%) ISO 8583
3 5 (11.63%) QA
4 4 (9.30%) Data Quality
4 4 (9.30%) PCI DSS
5 1 (2.33%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (2.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (2.33%) BitLocker
1 1 (2.33%) EMC RecoverPoint
1 1 (2.33%) Firmware
1 1 (2.33%) Hyper-V
1 1 (2.33%) Microsoft App-V
1 1 (2.33%) Terminal Services
1 1 (2.33%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (2.33%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (2.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (18.60%) HP ALM
2 1 (2.33%) Ansible
2 1 (2.33%) Avamar
2 1 (2.33%) Control-M
2 1 (2.33%) EMC VPLEX
2 1 (2.33%) NetBackup
2 1 (2.33%) PaperCut
2 1 (2.33%) SCCM
2 1 (2.33%) vCenter Server
2 1 (2.33%) vMotion
Vendors
1 11 (25.58%) Dell
2 10 (23.26%) IBM
3 4 (9.30%) Cisco
3 4 (9.30%) Microsoft
4 3 (6.98%) Oracle
4 3 (6.98%) ServiceNow
5 2 (4.65%) 3PAR
5 2 (4.65%) NetApp
6 1 (2.33%) Apple
6 1 (2.33%) CheckPoint
6 1 (2.33%) Citrix
6 1 (2.33%) EMC
6 1 (2.33%) Forcepoint
6 1 (2.33%) Juniper
6 1 (2.33%) Micro Focus
6 1 (2.33%) OpenText
6 1 (2.33%) Red Hat
6 1 (2.33%) Remedy
6 1 (2.33%) Symantec
6 1 (2.33%) Veritas